CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard track and field preparations for postseason continue this weekend, as the Crimson will send select student-athletes to the Penn Relays, beginning tomorrow, and the Stonehill (Skyhawk) Invitational on Saturday.

Last Time Out In challenging weather conditions, Harvard wrapped up competition at the Kansas Relays on Saturday (April 21). Harvard competed in the general Kansas Relays meet, while also partaking in a quadrangular meet against Kansas, Kansas State and Nebraska. Highlighting competition on Friday, Harvard's DMR relay teams, both men's and women's, won in the Kansas Relays portion of the meet. The men's team – Tyler Spear, Jonas Aranda, Nick Linder and Matthew Periera – won in 10:16.18. The women's team – Annika Gompers, Maya Miklos, Anna Juul, and Abbe Goldstein – dominated their event final, winning by more than 36 seconds in 11:50.46.

In The Rankings The Harvard women's team is the top ranked Ivy League team in the USTFCCCA rankings index (No. 33), and is the No. 4 team in the Northeast Regional rankings, with several impressive individual marks this season.

Gabby Thomas has the nation's top 200m time (22.32), recorded at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational. She also has the region's top 100m time (11.04), which is the sixth-fastest time in the nation. Simi Fajemisin has the region's best triple jump mark (42-10¾), which is 17th-best in the country, as well as the third best long jump mark in the region (20-1/4). Karina Joiner has the Northeast's second best time in the 400m hurdles (59.72). In the 5000m, Abbe Goldstein's 16:31.26 at the Raleigh Relays is sixth best in the Northeast, while Marlena Sabatino's 12-4½ mark in the pole vault last weekend at the Kansas Relays is also sixth best in the region.

The Harvard men are the top Ivy-team in the Northeast region (No. 7), after a school record-setting 4x400m relay performance from Rodney Agyare-May, Myles Marshall, Jovahn Williamson, and Matt Hurst – 3:08.57 – is the top time in the region and 45th in the country. Williamson recorded his collegiate best in the 400m (47.56) at the Harvard-Yale Meet, which is third fastest in the Northeast. Will Battershill has the region's third-fastest time in the 3000m steeplechase (8:59.44). Donagh Mahon has the third best high jump mark (6-11) in the Northeast, while Erick Duffy is fourth in the region in the pole vault (16-10¾).

Thomas Named to The Bowerman Mid-Outdoor Watch List Junior sprinter Gabby Thomas was named to The Bowerman Mid-Outdoor Watch list, following her recognition on The Bowerman Post-Indoor Watch List, the first time in program history a Harvard student-athlete has been named as a candidate for The Bowerman. The Bowerman is the nation's highest accolade given to the year's best student-athlete in American collegiate track and field. Thomas became the first Ivy League woman to be named to the Watch List since Princeton's Julia Ratcliffe on Jan. 8, 2015.

More on Gabby Thomas: A National Champion, Record Setter in 200m Thomas became the first Ivy League women's sprinter to win an indoor national championship in the 200m.

Thomas set a new collegiate record with her 22.38 mark in the final event heat of the NCAA Division Indoor Track and Field Championships at Texas A&M, breaking a 10-year record, previously held by Bianca Knight of Oregon (22.40, March 14, 2008). A junior captain from Florence, Mass., Thomas the fourth national indoor champion in Harvard women's track and field history, joining Kart Siilats (high jump, 2001), Dora Gyorffy (high jump, 2000), and Meredith L. Rainey (800 meters, 1990). Thomas' 200m mark sits fifth on the all-time world record list and second on the American performers list.

Thomas, Marshall Indoor All-Americans Both Gabby Thomas (200m, 60m) and Myles Marshall (800m) earned USTFCCCA All-America recognition. Thomas became the first Ivy League sprinter to earn back-to-back First Team All-America honors after her national title in the 200m. She also earned Second Team All-American honors for her 12th place finish in the 60-meter dash. Marshall also placed 12th to earn Second Team All-America honors in the 800m.

Tolbert Named USTFCCCA Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year Associate head coach Kebba Tolbert was named USTFCCCA Women's Assistant Coach of the Year for the Northeast Region, the organization announced this week. Tolbert earned this honor for the second year in a row and a third time in the last four seasons. Tolbert guides women's sprints, hurdles, and horizontal jumps at Harvard. His athletes were responsible for 78 of Harvard's 105 points at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships, including Heps titles in the 60m (Gabby Thomas), 200m (Gabby Thomas), triple jump (Simi Fajemisin), and 4x400m relay.

Under Tolbert's guidance, Thomas set a new Ivy League, meet, and school record in the 60-meter dash (7.25) at Indoor Heps, and Fajemisin recorded a new program mark in the triple jump (43'.25"), also at Indoor Heps

Harvard Earns 11 All-Ivy Selections at Indoor Heps After another strong showing at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championship, Harvard track and field had 11 selections to All-Ivy League teams, including four relay teams earning all-conference honors

All-Ivy selections are based on results from Indoor Heps, with all first-place finishers (including ties and relays) earning first-team All-Ivy, and all second-place finishers (including ties and relays) earning second-team All-Ivy.

Last Year's Outdoor Season In 2017, Harvard clinched its fourth straight Outdoor Heps title, totaling 164 points to run away with the team victory. In addition, seventeen (17) Harvard track and field athletes earned All-Ivy League honors by finishing among the top two in their respective events at the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships.

At the Helm: Jason Saretsky begins his 12th season at the helm of men's and women's track and field and cross country programs at Harvard in 2017-18. Saretsky's position, The William W. "Bill" McCurdy Director of Track and Field/Cross Country, became the 17th endowed coaching position at Harvard in the spring of 2013. Saretsky is just the 10th person to serve as head coach of the track and field program since Harvard began formal competition in 1874.

During Saretsky's tenure with the Crimson, Harvard has had 39 All-America performances, including eight in the 2016-17 season alone. The 2017 Ivy League Women's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year, Saretsky has also mentored 50 NCAA qualifiers, 136 NCAA regional qualifiers, coached to nine individual ECAC/IC4A titles with 119 Heptagonal champions, and countless school records have fallen with more than 250 marks added to the program's top-10 list. For the first time in program history and the second time in Ivy League history, the Harvard women's team completed the triple crown in 2016-17 - winning cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field Ivy League Heptagonal championships.

What's Next? Harvard will head back to Franklin Field next weekend to compete at the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships, hosted by Penn on May 5-6.